Historic Documents/ Essays

Bill of Rights

The Declaration of Indedpendence (Thomas Jefferson)

Letter from a Birmingham Jail (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)

The First Inaugural Address (President Abraham Lincoln)

A Time for Choosing (President Ronald Regan)
A Time for Choosing Video

Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech Video (Lou Gehrig)

FDR's Pearl Harbor Address Video (President Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

Philosophical and Literary Essays

How it Feels to be Colored Me (Zora Neale Hurston)

Civil Disobedience (Henry David Thoreau)

One Side Can be Wrong (Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne)

In Search of Our Mother's Gardens (Alice Walker)

Why Don't We Complain? (William F. Buckley)

A Homemade Education (Malcolm X)